Bivariate and Multiple Regression
Bivariate and Multivariate Regression to observe interest in politics and in environmental causes, as well as willingness to participate and pay higher prices for the cause, in relation to intellectual levels of tasks at work, age and gender.
The simple bivariate regression showed that the less interested people are in new scientific discoveries, the less interested they are interested in issues about environmental pollution. With every unit of increase in disinterest of new scientific discoveries, unit of disinterest in issues about environmental pollution increases by 0.8544 units, on average.
Net of how disinterested a person is in issues about new scientific discoveries, for each unit less willing they are to pay higher prices to protect the environment - they are 0.0408 points higher on their unwillingness to pay higher prices. This corresponds with their increase in disinterest by 0.8407 points for every unit increase of disinterest in new scientific discoveries.
Results from the multivariate regression showed that interest in politics increase among women in the United States, but decrease among younger people and people active in demonstrations for environmental causes.
In general, the more intellectual your job is, the more interested in politics you are. This is much more apparent in jobs that are more intellectual from scale 7 to 10 (with coefficients of +0.3295 to +0.5681). However, not every case is statistically significant, especially for more maniually jobs, where p-value were 0.259 for scale (3), 0.648 for scale (5) and 0.14 for scale (6), respectively. Other than those variables, scales (2) and (4) are statistically significant (p < 0.05) and all scales proceeding scale (7) are very highly statistically significant (p < 0.001).
We can conclude from the coefficients and their respective p-values above that while degree of variance with regards to interest in politics and more manual-inclined jobs may be larger, people with intellectually-inclined jobs are all interested in politics and degree of interest increases the more intellectually-inclined the jobs considered ‘intellectual’ are.
Lab outputs
